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Fox’s 9-1-1: Lone Star returns after the winter holidays with season five episode 10, an episode that has Owen worried about Judd’s sobriety. Episode 10, “All Who Wander,” will air on Monday, January 20, 2025 at 8pm Et/Pt.

Rob Lowe leads the cast as Captain Owen Strand, Ronen Rubinstein stars as T.K., Gina Torres plays Paramedic Captain Tommy Vega, and Jim Parrack is Judd Ryder. Natacha Karam plays Marjan Marwani, Brian Michael Smith is Paul Strickland, Julian Works is Mateo Chavez, Rafael Silva plays Carlos Reyes, and Brianna Baker is Nancy Gillian. Sierra McClain did not return for the fifth season.

“All Who Wander” Plot: Judd literally walks straight into the line of fire when an armory catches on fire, sending bullets flying everywhere. Owen questions Judd’s pledge of sobriety. Marjan introduces her boyfriend Joe (guest star John Clarance Stewart) to her visiting parents, Waleed (Michael Benyaer...

Leila Amini’s touching documentary A Sisters’ Tale offers an intimate look at one woman’s journey in modern-day Iran. Over the course of seven years, director Amini followed her sister Nasreen as she secretly pursued her dream of becoming a singer, despite this ambition going against both her culture and her husband’s wishes.

Nasreen finds herself trapped in an unhappy marriage with Mohamad, a traditional man whose interests lie elsewhere. With two young children to care for, she also shoulders significant household responsibilities. Meanwhile, women in Iran have been legally barred from public singing or recording since 1979. Against this restrictive backdrop, Nasreen still feels a burning passion for music within her.

Through candid conversations between the sisters, we gain a raw perspective on Nasreen’s emotional struggles. Her desire to nurture creativity clashes with duties as a mother and wife under patriarchal expectations. Yet Nasreen’s determination to...

Leila Amini’s “A Sisters’ Tale” centers on the filmmaker’s sister Nasreen, a Tehran housewife with a traditional husband, two young kids, and one big unrealized dream to sing. It’s an unfulfilled desire she shares with many a fellow “sister” in Iran, all of whom have been banned from expressing themselves through public singing since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. And it’s a story Amini followed closely with her camera as a not neutral observer for seven years, forever rooting for Nasreen to pursue her passion while simultaneously fearing the consequences if she in fact succeeds.

And those consequences have less to do with the political (wherever there are autocracies there are ways of circumventing the system) and more to do with the personal. For Nasreen’s husband Mohamad, a motorcycle technician as consumed by his work as Nasreen is with her dream, is a...

Nasreen Amini, an acclaimed Iranian singer-songwriter, has struggled for years under Iran’s restrictive laws that bar women from singing in public. A new documentary directed by her sister, Leila Amini, spotlights Nasreen’s fight to share her talent. Titled “A Sisters’ Tale,” the film premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The documentary followed Nasreen as she rediscovered her passion for music after feeling pressure to stop performing and start a family. As Leila recounts, Nasreen confided that her “only achievement in life is being the mother of two kids.” Through intimate scenes, viewers see Nasreen grapple with clashes over her musical ambitions with her husband in a country where the law prohibits women from singing publicly.

Festival programmer Thom Powers praised Nasreen’s “beauty, power, and poetry” in her voice, saying it “reshapes the world in her own vision.” The film documents Nasreen’s transformation “from...

Fall festival season picked up this last week with Venice and Telluride, and now Toronto is just around the corner, from 5-15 September 2024. This year, we’re seeing an exciting number of festival-favorite auteurs return, including Jia Zhang-ke (“Caught with the Wind”), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Cloud”), Mohammad Rassoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), and Hong Sang-soo (“By the Stream”). For those who are in Toronto and are interested in the older classics, TIFF Classics offers some delectable 4k restorations of South Asian and Iranian selects this year, including Raj Kapoor‘s classic “Awara” (1951) and Sohrab Shahid Saless‘ “Time of Maturity” (1976).

In addition to these, genre films seem to make up a healthy number of Asian selections this year. Korean blockbuster star Hyun-bin returns in Woo Min-ho’s latest historical spy movie, “Harbin,” and Tumpbal Tampubolon‘s “Crocodile Tears” promises a “slow-burning suspense thriller.” Three of the infamously-campy Midnight Madness screenings...

Feel the lingering essence of romance as we dive into the month of love with our handpicked selection of modern love stories! We have compiled binge-worthy audio series, web series, and films that you can indulge in this month. Here are 8 exciting shows that will keep the spirit of love going and that delight you throughout the month and beyond!

Social Distancing

Platform: Audible

‘Social Distancing’ is an Audible Original by Chetan Bhagat, featuring the real-life couple, Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi. The comedy-drama series chronicles Raghavan Rao aka “Rags” (Angad Bedi) and Savi (Neha Dhupia)’s contemporary relationship which is in jeopardy when Rags engages in an affair with his office colleague. The once blissfully married couple finds their relationship in troubled waters when it is revealed that both harbour secrets from each other. This is undeniably a must-listen for those seeking an unabashedly truthful and amusing audio series...

Dara Kadri must be one of the most complex characters written in Hindi cinema. Many watching Bambai Meri Jaan are cognizant of the real-life mafia don he is based on. The makers allow the audience to have a look at Dara Kadri as a man who was carried away by a life of crime after he saw Haji Maqbool flaunt his power and hold over the city. We were shaped by our surroundings while growing up, and it contributed to Dara Kadri becoming a terrifying gangster in the city.

Dara’s father, Ismail Kadri, was an honest and righteous police officer working for the Mumbai Police Department. His father and mother were told by a peer that Dara would turn out to be an intelligent kid and would see success as an adult. Little did any of them know that success came his way but in an unexpected manner. Ismail...

New Delhi, Sep 11 (Ians) The Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Jawan’ roared onto the big screen on Janmashtami, reaffirming the Bollywood superstar’s status as the ultimate entertainer. This action-packed thriller has set hearts racing and tongues wagging, earning praise from both critics and fans for its unadulterated dose of entertainment.

The narrative centres on a man compelled by a deep personal vendetta to right the societal wrongs of the past, all while honouring a promise made years ago. His path intersects with a formidable outlaw devoid of fear, responsible for inflicting severe suffering upon many. With a stellar cast including Srk, Nayanthara and Vijay Sethupathi in pivotal roles, and masterfully directed by Atlee, ‘Jawan’ is currently setting theaters ablaze.

But the excitement doesn’t end there.

If ‘Jawan’ left you craving more adrenaline-pumping action, you’re in for a treat. Here is a list of action-packed dramas on Ott platforms...

Mission: Majnu (Netflix)

Directed by Shantanu Bagchi

Mission Majnu is mentioned only once, or maybe twice, in the entire film. That’s the codeword for Raw agent Amandeep (Siddharth Malhotra)’s mission across the border.

Now the kaum in Pakistan in Indian cinema means green everywhere and the characters in skull caps addressing one another as ‘janaab’, which is not how people in Pakistan speak. Where is the normal conversation?

But yes, to the film’s credit, civilians in Pakistan are not demonized for once, only the politicians are. And they, I am sorry to say, come across as fools and clowns. No fault of the good actors Rajit Kapur, Shishir Mishra et al. who try hard to confer some dignity to their characters.

But it is a losing battle. When it comes to the depiction of Pakistan in Hindi cinema it always is: a losing battle, I mean. In every sense.

Abhishek Bachchan has responded to Bangladeshi-Swedish author Taslima Nasreen’s barb about how Amitabh Bachchan loves his son so much that he thinks he has “inherited all his talents” and is “the best”.

Replying to Nasreen on Twitter in the comments section, Abhishek said: “Absolutely correct. Ma’am. Nobody comes close to him in talent or anything else for that matter. He will always remain ‘the best’! I am an extremely proud son.”

Nasreen had earlier tweeted: “Amitabh Bachchan ji loves his son Abhishek Bachchan so much that he thinks his son inherited all his talents and his son is the best. Abhishek is good, but I do not think Abhishek is as talented as Amitji.”

Actor Suniel Shetty shared a reaction to Abhishek’s tweet and dropped a red heart emoji.

Nasreen’s tweet came close on the heels of Amitabh Bachchan praising his son for getting the award...